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Highlight of tonight's #MythOff: I get to tell one of my favorite parts of Journey to the West.

Downside: I have to summarize the previous 76 chapters of Journey to the West.

We really need to do an Epic Day.

#storytelling #mythology #JourneyToTheWest #MonkeyKing

Speaking of the Monkey King, I bought an audiobook of Julia Lovell's translation of Journey to the West, which was a lot of fun to listen to while drawing and coloring my illustrations this past week or so. There's a lot of humor in it. #journeytothewest #monkeyking

The dharma is born through the mind;
It’ll be destroyed, too, through the mind.
By whom it is destroyed or born,
That you must determine yourself.

If it is through your own mind,
Why do others need to tell you?
All that you need is your hard work
To draw blood out of iron ore.

Let a silk cord puncture your nose
To tie a firm knot on the void;
Fasten that to the tree of non-action,
That you’d not be vicious and wild.

Regard not the thief as your son,
And forget all dharma and mind.
Let not the Other deceive me:
With one big punch strike him out first.

The manifest mind’s also no mind;
Manifest Law is no-law.
When both Bull and Man disappear,
The jade-green sky is bright and clear.

Any autumn moon’s just as round:
You can’t tell one from the other.

-attributed to Xuanzang in Monkey/Journey To The West
Yu translation

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Important data for your morning from @McClanJr81on Twitter:

Sun Wukong kills over 1,030 humans in Journey to the West!

Ch. 14 - 6 robbers
Ch. 27 - Unknown (supposedly eaten in his youth)
Ch. 28 - 1,000-plus hunters
Ch. 44 - 2 Daoists
Ch. 46 - 1 official
Ch. 56 - 2 bandit chiefs, 1 unfilial son, & 20-ish bandits

#JourneyToTheWest #SunWukong #MonkeyKing #Murder #ChineseLiterature

https://twitter.com/McClanJr81/status/1614929180378173445

https://journeytothewestresearch.com/2023/01/15/how-many-humans-does-sun-wukong-kill-in-journey-to-the-west/

Played around with an AI art generator to make some images of #SunWukong the #MonkeyKing and I kind of love them. Definitely get the vibe of Sun Wukong at different stages of his journey.

#Myths #Mythology #Legends #Folklore

Probably still one of the pieces I'm happiest with #monkeyking #sunwukong #ArtistsOnMastodon #mmmmmike

My take on Sun Wukong from "Journey to the West" (2020).
#fanart #novel #journeytothewest #sunwukong #monkeyking